"A trigger is staring at the same corpse and remembering the Real Life maiming and death of someone so vividly you can still see it in your head, still hear it in your ears, and revert to that same emotional pit in an instant."
being in therapy for various reasons and having had far too many conversations about it, i can attest that this isn't entirely correct. Some triggers are more subtle, like, for instance, overhearing someone joking about Weight Woe might make you more aware of your food, and how it feels in your mouth and your stomach, and that the jeans that you're wearing used to be smaller, and make you pay more attention to what you're eating. and then you watch a film, and the fat character is the butt of all the jokes, and everyone in media is edited to hell and back until their bodies are perfect. and then you get to an unspecified amount of time later and barely getting out of bed because getting out of bed uses energy and using energy means you need to eat and you just can't eat, because otherwise you'll get fat, and you'll be the one that everyone's laughing at
also, like, "trigger" is just a word used in mental health to mean "something that set off a reaction," like loud noises setting off a meltdown in an autistic person. sometimes, things that can be triggers aren't triggers, and it often relates to the above paragraph. like, if someone was assaulted in some way, and it started with being grabbed on their forearm, then someone grabbing their forearm might be a trigger. some days, they might be further along recovery from their traumatic event, and a stranger might grab hold of them on a crowded train in order to stay standing, and it might be fine. then, another day, they could have maybe seen a video with scenery that looked like when they got assaulted, and a fictional character who reminds them of the perpetrator, and their friend might reach out to touch them and then set off a panic attack
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Nothing about the trend of some people on blogs to claim that anything that discomforts them is a "trigger"? I get the sense that that's a major part of the reason why this entry does so much to distinguish between a genuine triggered reactions and Squick or Dude, Not Funny!, so maybe there should be something about that. The backlash against people misdiagnosing themselves with PTSD or with being "triggered" is also a big part of the reason so many people don't like trigger warnings.
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I honestly never understood the need for trigger warnings. A simple "Warning: this contains example of whatever is in the work that may offend" is enough. by putting the word trigger on it,gives the impression that the warning was not enough. It also is a but insulting. "Oh, someone might get really upset!!! Clearly they can't handle the subject matter!!!"
I agree with people overusing it to describe something they don't like or disagree with. I once saw someone say a cartoon was triggering them. Its a way to complain about things.
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